Jennifer M Heemstra

I started writing this story because I wanted to think about why I’m in this career and not a different one. I read an interesting article written by a personal trainer last year, in which he…

In our careers, we often carry around burdens that slow us down, but we keep carrying them because they’re not quite heavy enough to get our attention. And, one of the best things that can happen is…

I've had several people tell me that "tenure is no big deal," both pre- and post-tenure. I respectfully and wholeheartedly disagree. I know that tenure is not some magical pass to stop working and…

When people asked me about my career goals, I would lie and say “I don’t know.” But that wasn’t my story.  I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I desperately wanted to be a professor at a major…